any members from south jersey or close by? ...tranny swap
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From: Tampa,Fl
Vehicle: 2001 Hyundai Tiburon
She wants to do a conversion. If you guys get an early start you guys would get enough done that she would be fine alone. As long as you get cables and the trans on she might be able to do the rest alone.
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completely untrue, 90% of the labor in a swap is actually prepping the car for the swap. like adding in shift linkages, cables, cluth pedal cylinders, hydro lines and all that good stuff. not to mention swapping the ecu to a manual one. All with the motor in the car. it did it to my accent and absolutely dreaded it, it took me and a freind 2 days straight to accomplish it.
it takes me alone about 1 day total to do a straight swap. about 3 hours with a friend
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The *labor* as in actual hard/heavy work that requires a helper. The little piddly bits barely count IMO, and you wouldn't have to help with any of them. If you have someone to help you swap transmissions auto-auto, that someone would be able to help unbolt a flex plate, mount a flywheel/clutch and mount the new manual transaxle. The only difference in the "I need four hands for this" work is the conversion for the clutch, which is 15 minutes if you have a proper impact gun and torque wrench. If she prepped both cars by removing everything possible BUT the transaxles, the time to pull and swap the actual gearboxes would only be a couple of hours, tops.
The lines/cables/electric stuff is slower but just as easy to do with one person. Given proper tools, there are enough people here who have done it that we could spoon feed her the information she needs to do the rest of the conversion. The ECM doesn't have to be changed, not that it matters because it does have to come out for the wiring (and she has a manual ECM anyway, in the donor car).
Having a donor car ROCKS when you are doing the auto-manual conversion, by the way. It makes life so much easier.
The lines/cables/electric stuff is slower but just as easy to do with one person. Given proper tools, there are enough people here who have done it that we could spoon feed her the information she needs to do the rest of the conversion. The ECM doesn't have to be changed, not that it matters because it does have to come out for the wiring (and she has a manual ECM anyway, in the donor car).
Having a donor car ROCKS when you are doing the auto-manual conversion, by the way. It makes life so much easier.